Hell

In Search of a Christian Ecology

Timothy Morton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2024
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-21471-1 (ISBN)

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Hell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy has ignited a worldwide inferno, more phantasmagoric than anything William Blake could dream up and more cataclysmic than we can fathom. Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book shows, requires a radical, mystical marriage of Christianity and biology that awakens a future beyond white male savagery.

Timothy Morton argues that there is an unexpected yet profound relationship between religion and ecology that can guide a planet-scale response to the climate crisis. Spiritual and mystical feelings have a deep resonance with ecological thinking, and together they provide the resources environmentalism desperately needs in this time of climate emergency. Morton finds solutions in a radical revaluation of Christianity, furnishing ecological politics with a language of mercy and forgiveness that draws from Christian traditions without bringing along their baggage. They call for a global environmental movement that fuses ecology and mysticism and puts race and gender front and center. This nonviolent resistance can stage an all-out assault on the ultimate Satanic mill: the concept of master and slave, manifesting today in white supremacy, patriarchy, and environmental destruction. Passionate, erudite, and playful, Hell takes readers on a full-color journey into the contemporary underworld—and offers a surprising vision of salvation.

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and director of the Cool America Foundation. They are the author of more than twenty books, including Hyperobjects, Dark Ecology, and Ecology Without Nature. Morton has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Susan Kucera, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, and Olafur Eliasson.

Acknowledgments
What the Hell: An Exordium
Christ’s Earthly Form Divine: An Introduction
Part I: Holy
1. Welcome to Hell
2. Hell on Earth
3. Hell, Where All Your Dreams Come True
Part II: Holy
4. Nobodaddy’s Home
5. Parabolas of Hell
6. Abortions
Part III: Holy
7. Hot as Hell
8. Experiences
9. Worlds Without Ends
Notes
Read, Listen, and Watch Like Hell
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.05.2024
Zusatzinfo	13 color illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-231-21471-5 / 0231214715
ISBN-13	978-0-231-21471-1 / 9780231214711
Zustand	Neuware